Understanding how to navigate through Joomla 1.6 makes building a great-looking interactive Web site easier. Keep viewers’ interest piqued by using the following tips when you design Web sites with Joomla!:
To navigate to the Administration Control Panel:
If Joomla is installed locally (on your own computer), navigate to http://yoursite/administrator (that’s http://localhost/administrator or http://localhost/xxxx/administrator if you installed Joomla in the directory xxxx).
If Joomla is installed remotely (on a host server), navigate to www.yoursite.com/administrator.
To get a preview of the front end while logged into the back end: Click the View Site link in the top-right corner of any back end page.
To take your site offline: From any back end page, Choose Site→Global Configuration to open the Global Configuration page. From the Site Settings pane, select the Yes radio button in the row marked Site Offline.
To put your site back online: From any back end page, Choose Site→Global Configuration to open the Global Configuration page. From the Site Settings pane, select the No radio button in the row marked Site Offline.
To switch templates: From any back end page, Choose Extensions→Template Manager. Select the radio button for the template you want to use. Now, click the Make Default button.
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